This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2017.
Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.
The kind read-only property of the MediaDeviceInfo interface returns an enumerated value, that is either "videoinput", "audioinput" or "audiooutput".
One of "videoinput", "audioinput" or "audiooutput".
| Specification |
|---|
| Media Capture and Streams> # dom-mediadeviceinfo-kind> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
kind |
47 | 12 | 39 | 34 | 11 | 47 | 39 | 34 | 11 | 5.0 | 47 | 11 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDeviceInfo/kind